@@DeeDee_Nolacorrect, the word is sermon as the ceremonial preeching session of a preacher is correctly called but we ain't know all dat when we blaq n' slow and we certainly are that(though my dna is part yellow, hence this name of mine being far flung into the east where dogs are treats).
I believe my self too be a bad ass at one time or another, I guess every one does. But your quote has to be the most bad ass quote I have ever heard...😂😂😂
My grandfather was born 3-12-1914. He was a big man as well. Always did manual work hands on. When I would go to my frends house the stories some of their grandparents would tell me about him. He was church bound every Sunday, but he was no one to play with lol. He was my father figure. Rest his soul he died August 2009 😢.
It's nice that you loved your grandpa(may he rest in peace) but what the hell does your comment have to do with the video? Did you even watch it. Sam Langford was 5'7" & fought from lightweight all the way up to heavyweight.
@@Ninjasnail1926 lol. You're criticising my reading comprehension? Read it again, doofus. The stories he was told by his friend's grandparents, were about his grandfather, not the boxer. 🤦🏼🤡
Some people are very aware of others intentions and their own surroundings or environments. The biggest mistake one can make is thinking that some people are unaware or don’t know. This is usually the case with overconfident, arrogant or self obsessed beings.
@@lesbiancholo3603 you just described it. You look at body language, emotions, you can see if someone is shady by their eyes kinda. Its a mix of observation and intuition, as well as experience
@@cumcumcum148people who are self absorbed miss the energy of others. Always thinking bout what we're gonna do and our opponents energy go right over our head.
I wish that white people would have the same assertive attitude as Langford and stop being scared of the race card....of course when the media is anti white I can understand why some whites are nervous
@@Jack-sk2el That’s a great matchup and a tough one to call! Well Tyson seemed to have better footwork and head movement but I think by the later rounds Langford would walk him down and connect on the end of some of his heavy knockout blows. He was a 15 round fighter where Tyson would do all his best work in the first 3-4 rounds so it would just be a matter of time.
@@veganskillzanother thing to take into consideration is that Tyson had to punch upwards against the vast majority of his opponents. He wouldn't be able to do that against Langford.
Sam Langford is a mysterious but albeit extraordinary figure to look back upon throughout boxing history. He definitely was well above average as he was more than capable of overcoming people much larger than him and had the unique ability to put out more than what his body should be able to sustain. A legendary boxer to study upon
The human body is a strange and wonderful thing. I have met people who have had incredible intellects, people who have had incredible strength beyond what their frames would suggest, and people whose speed was blinding fast. Mister Langford seems to have been blessed with all three, as well as the property of wisdom. My question is, who humbled him?? I'm "relatively" sure someone did, at some point in his life.
It reminds me of Cus D'Amato and Mohammed Ali sparring, and Ali thought that he had it all figured out but didn't see Cus D'Amato's punch coming to his rib. The technic was just amazing.
@@kennethdenson8223 I totally agree. And we need to remember that D'Amato was more than just a coach, he was a philosopher, a professor, a grandmaster in his craft. But Ali was without any shadow of a doubt the fighter. Thus, no comparison can be made.
Lol dude was even more in tune than what he thought.. the fact that merely the change in body language and facial expression is what dude picked up on and knocked him out for it 😭😭😭
This is the same fighter who won the Mexican heavyweight title and KO’ed Hall of Famer Tiger Flowers in 2 rounds whilst being legally blind. Yeah I guess he had some good senses
Nothing wrong with losing to the greatest boxer of all time, even when he's blind in both eyes, overweight, and way out of his prime. Godfrey was an AMAZING fighter and puncher either way! 250+ lbs at 6'2½, he was a titan. Fighting at that weight, he fought like a skilled and quick Middleweight! Props to him for stepping into the ring with such great men, including Langford.
Still. Woulda been impressive if he could a done that to one attacker let alone two. Shaking their fists angrily at Jack, "You make me do come" Shane Gilis@@luismiranda6163
Sam Langford was a bad man! He’s one of the greatest to ever do it. It’s a shame more people don’t know just how incredible he was, his accomplishments speak for themselves.
@@bio-plasmictoad5311 back then though the boxing gloves were probably on par with a MMA glove of today lol that's kind of what I'm getting at. Now you will never see someone who is only a boxer and not mixed matial arts ,with a coliflower ear
Dempsey was young and not managed well. He wasn't ready for a fight with Langford and knew it. Push a fighter too fast and you can ruin his career. Remember Pete Rademacher? They moved him into a title fight with Floyd Patterson in his first pro fight. Nobody ever heard from him again after that. Langford was way more dangerous than Patterson. The Dempsey from 1919 wouldn't have had to fear Sam.
The "Boston Tar Baby," at 5'6 1/2", 185lbs, fought in weight classes from lightweight to heavyweight, defeating World Champions & legends of the time in each weight class. Langford was a devastating puncher even at heavyweight, and was rated No. 2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of All-Time." Langford was described as "experienced as heavyweight James Toney with the punching power of Mike Tyson." Langford, denied a legitimate shot at a World Championship Title, even though he defeated EVERY World Champion or eventual World Champion in non-title bouts, except for Jack Johnson, who outweighed Langford by 35lbs when he defeated Langford in their only fight. Langford was denied his shot at a legitimate World Title due to the color of his skin, though he was the World Colored Heavyweight Champion, a title vacated by Jack Johnson, the white establishment's selected "colored man," after Johnson won the World Championship(which he would win a record five times). Chirped renowned Champion Jack Dempsey, who refused a fight with Langford, "I think that Sam Langford was the greatest fighter of our time." Langford, a Canadian by birth(The Ring ranked Langford as the 22nd Greatest Canadian Boxer of All-Time), was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. He was a Stud🤙 Cheers🍻 RP
Hey @@connorperrett9559, thanks for responding👊 Actually, Johnson & Langford did fight once, with Johnson, who outweighed Langford by 35 pounds, beating Langford handily, breaking his nose, splitting his eye lid and cutting his lip badly. Johnson said later that he could have put Langford on the canvas at any point from the 5th round on, though he had prolonged the match to 15 rounds at the request of the ring's management. Johnson refused to give Langford a rematch once he was Champion. In speaking to a few of the old-timers from the day, one a black Gent who was an asst. trainer at the gym where Langford trained in Boston, he said that the word was that Johnson, who was the first and only black World Champion at the time, did not want to "share" the spotlight with another black fighter, especially a black fighter such as Langston, who, one, had improved greatly since their fight and secondly, could end a fight at any time with just one punch. Actually, it was Jack Dempsey, in 1916, who refused a fight with Langston that many said was out of fear. Dempsey later stated, "I think Sam Langford was the greatest fighter we ever had." Stay Well🍻 RP
George Godfrey, also a Canadian, was no slouch either, as he too won the World "Colored" Championship and literally chased World Heavyweight Champion Jack Sullivan around the country and into Canada, showing up in cities when Sullivan was fighting and challenging him to a fight, anytime, any place. In 1881 a story surfaced that a bare-knuckle fight against Sullivan had been scheduled but was stopped by the Boston police due to boxing being illegal in the state. I asked the Old-Timer that I mentioned above about its legitimacy and he stated that it was true as the Boston Police had put a car outside their gym to basically keep tabs on Godfrey whenever Sullivan was fighting in either the NY/Massachusetts areas, lol Cheers🍻 RP
@@bossplayermfs5972 If ya google "how tall was Sam Langford," the first line that appears underneath that is 5'7", however his Wiki page states 5' 6 1/2", though what I went by was the asst. trainer who I spoke to and of above, who was 5'7"(I'm 6'2") and said that he was "a smidgeon" taller than Langford. I just took "a smidgeon" to be 1/2" as I figured if he was an inch taller, he would have stated that. I know that "Box Rec" listed him at 5' 7 1/2", though I'm sticking with the trainer, lol. Regardless of whether Sam Langford was 5'6 1/2", 5'7" or 5' 7 1/2", he was a fire hydrant who packed a hell of a punch🥊 RP
Looked him up. Samuel Edgar Langford March 4, 1886 Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Canada He was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows", by ESPN, Langford is considered by many boxing historians to be one of the greatest fighters of all time. Originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova Scotia, he was known as "The Boston Bonecrusher", "The Boston Terror", and his most famous nickname, "The Boston Tar Baby". Langford stood 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1.69 m) and weighed 185 lb (84 kg) in his prime. He fought from lightweight to heavyweight and defeated many world champions and legends of the time in each weight class. Considered a devastating puncher even at heavyweight, Langford was rated No. 2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". One boxing historian described Langford as "experienced as a heavyweight James Toney with the punching power of Mike Tyson".
George got a valuable education that day. Ol Sam could read faces quite well. I hoped George thanked the charitable soul who splashed water in his face. Sam spoke the Truth
Look at the build, the size and the muscletone of these warriors back in the day. I believe that with the right (LEGAL) supplements, food and today's world class training, men like them could hang with just about any of today's top fighters.
My father was a golden gloves champ back in the day. When I would try to work a jab on him, I hit his forearms and it felt like I broke my hand. He was a machinist so he did the equivalent of lifting weights 6 hours a day. Few people do that type of labor today.
That's real! Have you ever had someone clumsily or inadvertently express intense aggression or negativity with their eyes and facial expression? It's like an insulting flash of truth💯
Sam Langford is one of greatest boxers of all time regardless of weight right next to guys like Ali , Louis, Pep, Robinson, Gans, Marciano, Moore, Armstrong, Greb, Benny Leonard, Jack Johnson, Dempsey Etc.
But if in a predominantly black society a white boxer was called a chalk baby, I doubt it would have been meant or taken with offence. Seems more like whiny crybabies of today looking to keep hold of offence questionably taken 100 years ago are the ones stoking division today. Oh, let me guess, I'm a racist chalk baby yes? In fact am I even allowed to admire these men?
It’s so very sad that Langford never had the chance to fight for the crown. He is my all time favorite fighter. From lightweight to heavyweight, he fought them all. Jack Johnson should have given him a rematch when he was champion.
A KO and a Preach for the same price. That's what I call Full Service! 😂
💯😂
sermon
@@DeeDee_Nolacorrect, the word is sermon as the ceremonial preeching session of a preacher is correctly called but we ain't know all dat when we blaq n' slow and we certainly are that(though my dna is part yellow, hence this name of mine being far flung into the east where dogs are treats).
That's beautiful! ❤🎉
Preach on brother lol 😂
Damn that’s cold
“Remember, I taught you everything you know. Not everything I know.”
I believe my self too be a bad ass at one time or another, I guess every one does. But your quote has to be the most bad ass quote I have ever heard...😂😂😂
THIS!!🎯🎯
Exactly
😂💯😎
@@paulvega5300aye I'm a bit of a badass myself ngl
"Death and damnation", probably the names of his fists.
That's a good one 😂
Christ loves you my good sir
Wouldn’t be surprised. Langford was a monster. An absolutely legendary fighter. It’s shame he isn’t more well known.
Lol
😂😂
Dude people were so much eloquent and expressive back then even a boxer speaks so compellingly
"Wages of sin are death and damnation", amen to that!!😅😅😅 Preach, preacher!
Exactly 💯
Point taken
If you believe christ died on the cross. You will not
@@goodrich3679don't just believe. Obey.
Testify.
Imagine being knocked out and coming back to just to be humbled again by scripture.
😂he did the right thing to preach to him
I know he really taught him a real lesson
Must have had the appetite for two slices of humble pie
Best to learn while humble.
Am I the only one that thinks it was just a cold ass line? Like the "sin" was even stepping to HIM in the first place?
My grandfather was born 3-12-1914. He was a big man as well. Always did manual work hands on. When I would go to my frends house the stories some of their grandparents would tell me about him. He was church bound every Sunday, but he was no one to play with lol. He was my father figure. Rest his soul he died August 2009 😢.
😢
It's nice that you loved your grandpa(may he rest in peace) but what the hell does your comment have to do with the video?
Did you even watch it.
Sam Langford was 5'7" & fought from lightweight all the way up to heavyweight.
@@WorldCupWilliehis grandfather told him ABOUT THIS BOXER… ugh read..
@@Ninjasnail1926 lol. You're criticising my reading comprehension? Read it again, doofus.
The stories he was told by his friend's grandparents, were about his grandfather, not the boxer. 🤦🏼🤡
You have some SERIOUS issues. REAL SERIOUS!!!!@@WorldCupWillie
“You even dream about swinging on me boy, you better wake up and apologize”
Alternate ending:
🤣😆😭👍🏾 Now that's old school right there 💯
Classic !!!! 😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥
Best comment here!!
😅😂😅😂
Ain't heard that one in a dog's age lol 😂
Sam Langford was a walking cure for intrusive thoughts.😊
Hahaha haha apparently so
having him as a parent.... wow.
L😂L
Still a slave
GREAT COMMENT!
Pre Supplements, pre Steroids, pre modern Gym equipment etc and just look at these Gladiators. 🙌
Yeah... Almost as if our species gotten... Skinner as time passed... And more shiny for some reason.
@TKOthunder Men of today have lower testosterone level then men from this time
@@TKOthunder huh 😭
@@TKOthunderwtf r u talking about sounds creepy
@@3ikyythis dudes a creep
These guys were jacked!! Imagine what they’d look like today if they had everything that we have
We are the ORIGINAL GIANTS 🙄
They would look like today's boxers. Everything we got includes "vices, distractions and addictions." They were likely better off back then.
@gustavogomez7331 might be the same size, but the not same mentality like u would have to kill them to win
Yea, like steroids.
Jack Dempsey said in his book and publicly many times that if he ever fought Sam Langford, he (Dempsey) would be knocked out.
They say he’s the only man jack Johnson never wanted to fight
I think Jack would have took him only because he was bigger and over a decade younger
That's some cold blooded shit to say somebody after you knock them out 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That old man was on a whole other plane of existence to the rest of us
He spoke the truth where you get cold blooded from
@@yacobshelelshaddai4543...... What do you think cold blooded means in this context 😑
Not if you read the Gospel and accept the Message 😁
@@mysty0fool u didn't exist back then
this guy needs to be celebrated more, absolutely devestating and truelly transcended the weight classes. best ever to never have a title
Better than *CHARLEY BURLEY⁉️⁉️⁉️*
@first_to_lett_a_rhymme_flow_ there weren't titles at the time
@@jasoneastling332 Burley fought during RØBINSØN’s time 🕰️, there were titles
@@first_to_lett_a_rhymme_flow_ I was talking about Langford
@@first_to_lett_a_rhymme_flow_langford is a close second to burley
God i wish people still talked like that!
Some people are very aware of others intentions and their own surroundings or environments. The biggest mistake one can make is thinking that some people are unaware or don’t know.
This is usually the case with overconfident, arrogant or self obsessed beings.
How do they sense it? I’m curious because I never sense anything, I just watch people’s words, body language, and actions.
@@lesbiancholo3603 you just described it. You look at body language, emotions, you can see if someone is shady by their eyes kinda. Its a mix of observation and intuition, as well as experience
Biggest snitch in history.?? Our ENERGY(AURA).
@@cumcumcum148people who are self absorbed miss the energy of others. Always thinking bout what we're gonna do and our opponents energy go right over our head.
Damn, everyone was scared of Sam Langford🔥 and so they should have been
Pretty good for a Canadian 😊
He fought in any weight class. There will never be another 💪🏿🥊
I wish that white people would have the same assertive attitude as Langford and stop being scared of the race card....of course when the media is anti white I can understand why some whites are nervous
I weren't I called him boy
@@dubiousplantdiet
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Sam Langford one of the Greatest to ever do it .
Beat over 100 top 10s,him and Harry greb have insane numbers
Yea right dude has a terrible style lmao
@@dontrah1838You're stupid.
@@dantedlane2You mean top 100. 😅😅
And only 5'6
I loved the way they talked back then.. ruffled tuff manly men and still facilitate thier words so elegantly
Damnnn Sam Langford was the truth ! A middleweight who regularly took down world class heavyweights
Langford or Tyson 🤔 Time machine Match ?
@@Jack-sk2el That’s a great matchup and a tough one to call! Well Tyson seemed to have better footwork and head movement but I think by the later rounds Langford would walk him down and connect on the end of some of his heavy knockout blows. He was a 15 round fighter where Tyson would do all his best work in the first 3-4 rounds so it would just be a matter of time.
@@veganskillzanother thing to take into consideration is that Tyson had to punch upwards against the vast majority of his opponents. He wouldn't be able to do that against Langford.
Didn’t matter how big you were Sam Langford was a beast
Possibly the greatest fighter who ever lived.
Lmao this story made me crack up!. "Seems like I done been knocked out cold" 😂😂
Johhhn coffee😂😂😂
@@Norego.Newzealandlove coffee❤
🤣 me too!!! Whole short made my day
Hahaha 🥊🥶😭‼️
Dog garnit
There is nothing in life I have paid more for than humility.
Bro just knocked the fucking "Evil" out of him no 🧢
a telegraph punch will be dealt with Sam was feared God even Dempsey knew
Sam Langford is a mysterious but albeit extraordinary figure to look back upon throughout boxing history.
He definitely was well above average as he was more than capable of overcoming people much larger than him and had the unique ability to put out more than what his body should be able to sustain.
A legendary boxer to study upon
Langford is a David of his time.
@@anthonymcken6050 definitely was and had much more to show that we haven’t seen but only heard about
🎉🎉deve ter sido mal treinado com esses tamanho deveria ter destruído tudo tamanho não funciona sem treinamento
He was a heavyweight champ at soem point right with the frame and low bodyweight
The human body is a strange and wonderful thing. I have met people who have had incredible intellects, people who have had incredible strength beyond what their frames would suggest, and people whose speed was blinding fast.
Mister Langford seems to have been blessed with all three, as well as the property of wisdom.
My question is, who humbled him?? I'm "relatively" sure someone did, at some point in his life.
this some baki shit
Bruh if he didn’t had a humble phrase afterwards the story might as well have been Yujiro.
@@jihadaoif he was Yujiro he’d have a big ass smile on his face when Godfrey was gonna throw a punch
Word up ,heyyy.
🤣 Str8 up
Baki doing Sam Langford shit. 💀
It reminds me of Cus D'Amato and Mohammed Ali sparring, and Ali thought that he had it all figured out but didn't see Cus D'Amato's punch coming to his rib. The technic was just amazing.
Good music on his Technics then?
I remember installing my Technic speakers with great Technique.
@@macman975 😂
They were playing around ali would dust cuss all do respect
@@kennethdenson8223 I totally agree. And we need to remember that D'Amato was more than just a coach, he was a philosopher, a professor, a grandmaster in his craft. But Ali was without any shadow of a doubt the fighter. Thus, no comparison can be made.
Ever quick on his feet, Ali responded "You're smarter than you look!" 😂
Sam Langford was a greater fighter than we can comprehend
😂😂😂
Be careful who you play with!!
Foreal foreal 😅😅😅😅
Thats why I play with myself
White folk made slaves fight and now it’s a sport. They been playing us for centuries
If they were in same era who would win this guy or Cassius Clay?
@@TheBootyman94 Aaayoo
I love that story. That's a GOAT thing to say LOL respect your elders.
Sam is the greatest
Bahh bahhh
Im an Atheist but that last bar he said said shivers down my spine
There's a reason for why you felt that way my friend
@@ryon_james92because humbleness is something all humans can share empathically even while believing in different sky daddies
Sam was a preacher for real 😂😂
Lol dude was even more in tune than what he thought.. the fact that merely the change in body language and facial expression is what dude picked up on and knocked him out for it 😭😭😭
That's why i think everyone should learn how to fight. Body language is a lot more important when missing it means catching a blow.
💯THAT'S WHAT BOXERS GO OFF MOST OF THE TIME(BODY LANGUAGE)💯
That same intuitive mindset is what keeps some of us alive,or upright in the streets,survival instincts.
This is the same fighter who won the Mexican heavyweight title and KO’ed Hall of Famer Tiger Flowers in 2 rounds whilst being legally blind.
Yeah I guess he had some good senses
Nothing wrong with losing to the greatest boxer of all time, even when he's blind in both eyes, overweight, and way out of his prime. Godfrey was an AMAZING fighter and puncher either way! 250+ lbs at 6'2½, he was a titan. Fighting at that weight, he fought like a skilled and quick Middleweight! Props to him for stepping into the ring with such great men, including Langford.
Would've made a Hell of a Soldier 🪖
@@Jack-sk2el He was a soldier in the ring for sure 💯
@@Jack-sk2elplease don't
"The wages of sin are death and damnation" - I really like that quote!
People spoke with so much more eloquence and descriptiveness in those times. 2024: “bruh, that shit was wild!”
It seems slang was used sparingly, not 100 percent of the time.
So tell me how they justify being more slang and ebonics now when they were less coming out of slavery @@hanniballecter4454
Old boxers are no joke. There was recently some 80 year old boxer who beat the crap out of someone who entered his home to rob him
Jack Dempsey did that. In his 70s or 80s he beat off two attackers..
@@Peter-jo6yuhe beat them off...?
I know immature 😂
Still. Woulda been impressive if he could a done that to one attacker let alone two. Shaking their fists angrily at Jack, "You make me do come" Shane Gilis@@luismiranda6163
😂@@luismiranda6163
Lesson: Don't ever play with fire.
😂😂😂😂 “ next a charitable soul was pouring water on my face” knock the f out the energy of success loves humble ppl smh
Bro hit him with humbleness and a Bible verse Sam Langford got my respect even more now 😮💨🔥
Bro cleared his doubt without hesitation😂
Sam Langford was a bad man!
He’s one of the greatest to ever do it.
It’s a shame more people don’t know
just how incredible he was,
his accomplishments speak for themselves.
Sam Langford was the most underrated fighter of the last two centuries!
Anger only works when its righteous,thats where we mess up💯
Thank You for sharing. I was not aware of this fighter, coming from someone that admires the classic warrios.
Watch the doc RDB did on Sam Langford!! Additonally, hes done many amazing docs on legends of the sport.
Easily a top five All timer. Plenty of good documentary’s on RUclips 👍 have fun
Anyone see that calaflower ear? Most of us know what it is now, but in the 20's? Incredible, thank you for sharing these amazing pictures.
You see them now in cage fighting .. but back then in boxing gloves wernt very good
@KiXa1 with grappling and off the matt.
@@bio-plasmictoad5311 back then though the boxing gloves were probably on par with a MMA glove of today lol that's kind of what I'm getting at. Now you will never see someone who is only a boxer and not mixed matial arts ,with a coliflower ear
Do an internet search for "famous ancient Greek statue of a boxer". Those ears were cauliflowered too.
So you can get that from boxing too? I always thought it was just a wrestling thing.
He saw that evil light and decided to put it out, for just a sec.
Sam was a freak. Started at welterweight was sleeping and being ducked by Heavyweights
the great samlangford the man who even jack johnson and jack dempsey avoided like a pleague... one of the greatest of all time
Dempsey Avoid ? Hard to believe he was a Fearless & Ferocious Boxer 🤔
@@Jack-sk2el i know right? but its his words not mine he said it both in his book and in a interview you can find in on youtube for sure
Dempsey was young and not managed well. He wasn't ready for a fight with Langford and knew it. Push a fighter too fast and you can ruin his career. Remember Pete Rademacher? They moved him into a title fight with Floyd Patterson in his first pro fight. Nobody ever heard from him again after that. Langford was way more dangerous than Patterson. The Dempsey from 1919 wouldn't have had to fear Sam.
@@nelsonmcatee3721 No version of Dempsey is beating Langford. Even Harry Wills would’ve beaten Dempsey.
"Everybody got a plan until they punched 👊 in the face" the great Mike Tyson
Joe Louis said it first pal.
@@paulanthony5274 heard it first from Mike but thanks
Sam Tyson or Mike Langford. 😅
The true Glory Days of boxing.
Glory for whom?
I think the 50’s-60’s was the glory days
People had such a command of the English language back then. It's a shame how we barely speak it today.
Are you joking what is special about English language 😂
@@djblaqice1960listen how they talk and how we talk now " ayy bruh that shit was mid. Or cap" come on
Dude looks like he was standing on the auction block.
I laughed
The "Boston Tar Baby," at 5'6 1/2", 185lbs, fought in weight classes from lightweight to heavyweight, defeating World Champions & legends of the time in each weight class.
Langford was a devastating puncher even at heavyweight, and was rated No. 2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of All-Time." Langford was described as "experienced as heavyweight James Toney with the punching power of Mike Tyson."
Langford, denied a legitimate shot at a World Championship Title, even though he defeated EVERY World Champion or eventual World Champion in non-title bouts, except for Jack Johnson, who outweighed Langford by 35lbs when he defeated Langford in their only fight. Langford was denied his shot at a legitimate World Title due to the color of his skin, though he was the World Colored Heavyweight Champion, a title vacated by Jack Johnson, the white establishment's selected "colored man," after Johnson won the World Championship(which he would win a record five times).
Chirped renowned Champion Jack Dempsey, who refused a fight with Langford, "I think that Sam Langford was the greatest fighter of our time."
Langford, a Canadian by birth(The Ring ranked Langford as the 22nd Greatest Canadian Boxer of All-Time), was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
He was a Stud🤙
Cheers🍻
RP
It was Jack Johnson himself who refused to fight Langford despite being black as well. He was likely afraid of him.
Hey @@connorperrett9559, thanks for responding👊
Actually, Johnson & Langford did fight once, with Johnson, who outweighed Langford by 35 pounds, beating Langford handily, breaking his nose, splitting his eye lid and cutting his lip badly. Johnson said later that he could have put Langford on the canvas at any point from the 5th round on, though he had prolonged the match to 15 rounds at the request of the ring's management.
Johnson refused to give Langford a rematch once he was Champion. In speaking to a few of the old-timers from the day, one a black Gent who was an asst. trainer at the gym where Langford trained in Boston, he said that the word was that Johnson, who was the first and only black World Champion at the time, did not want to "share" the spotlight with another black fighter, especially a black fighter such as Langston, who, one, had improved greatly since their fight and secondly, could end a fight at any time with just one punch.
Actually, it was Jack Dempsey, in 1916, who refused a fight with Langston that many said was out of fear. Dempsey later stated, "I think Sam Langford was the greatest fighter we ever had."
Stay Well🍻
RP
George Godfrey, also a Canadian, was no slouch either, as he too won the World "Colored" Championship and literally chased World Heavyweight Champion Jack Sullivan around the country and into Canada, showing up in cities when Sullivan was fighting and challenging him to a fight, anytime, any place.
In 1881 a story surfaced that a bare-knuckle fight against Sullivan had been scheduled but was stopped by the Boston police due to boxing being illegal in the state. I asked the Old-Timer that I mentioned above about its legitimacy and he stated that it was true as the Boston Police had put a car outside their gym to basically keep tabs on Godfrey whenever Sullivan was fighting in either the NY/Massachusetts areas, lol
Cheers🍻
RP
Sam Langford was 5’7’1/2 son.
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If ya google "how tall was Sam Langford," the first line that appears underneath that is 5'7", however his Wiki page states 5' 6 1/2", though what I went by was the asst. trainer who I spoke to and of above, who was 5'7"(I'm 6'2") and said that he was "a smidgeon" taller than Langford. I just took "a smidgeon" to be 1/2" as I figured if he was an inch taller, he would have stated that. I know that "Box Rec" listed him at 5' 7 1/2", though I'm sticking with the trainer, lol.
Regardless of whether Sam Langford was 5'6 1/2", 5'7" or 5' 7 1/2", he was a fire hydrant who packed a hell of a punch🥊
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Langford was Legendary in His Time
Looked him up.
Samuel Edgar Langford
March 4, 1886
Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Canada
He was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows", by ESPN, Langford is considered by many boxing historians to be one of the greatest fighters of all time.
Originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova Scotia, he was known as "The Boston Bonecrusher", "The Boston Terror", and his most famous nickname, "The Boston Tar Baby".
Langford stood 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1.69 m) and weighed 185 lb (84 kg) in his prime. He fought from lightweight to heavyweight and defeated many world champions and legends of the time in each weight class. Considered a devastating puncher even at heavyweight, Langford was rated No. 2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time".
One boxing historian described Langford as "experienced as a heavyweight James Toney with the punching power of Mike Tyson".
George Godfrey reminds me of another great boxer from back in that day Jack Johnson 🥊
Just glancing at the thumbnail, that’s who I thought it was lol
Sam Langford was a different breed. Dude was only 5'6-5'7 a lightweight knocking out heavyweights with ease. Homie was a bull
Where's the proof some clown on RUclips?
@dontrah1838 it's called documentation. Also Google is free.
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Langford was a Phenom, just like Henry Armstrong who came later.
Indeed Sir, Langford was a once in a generation fighter and seriously avoided. Even Jack Dempsey wanted no part of him.
@nthnmonkey Yup, Sam was a threat for such a small guy, it's a shame he wasn't talked about as much
There will never be another Sam Langford. The conditions that created that kind of tuffness thankfully no longer exist.
Man, Sam had a way with words. I can only imagine how in shock he would be interacting with nowadays crowds.
THANK YOU for putting this together! 😮 🔥
I love how he talked if he really said it that way.
i’ve seen men from my travels around africa look like this with no supplements .. just good food and hard work
Old folks were build different. They actually did stuff, that's raw power.
Wow, Sam had God's spirit in him
He had
And he passed it to Godfrey through his fist.
Look at those big arms on both of them . Presumably without anabolic steroids
Heavy weight boxers are bigger now but them old school heavyweights where leaner and meaner...No man boobs 😂
@@brianvestaThere were giants at that time as well, like Jess Willard
Respect the old masters.
His size is crazy for no steroids or supplements. So much testosterone. When men were allowed to be men and not shamed for it!!
Def a big dude, can tell just by looking at him, hes legit
That’s the most alpha sh!t Iv ever heard!👏🏻
5'6" 162lbs Sam was called the Boston terror or Boston bonecrusher. Blinded in both eyes from boxing. What a beast
"George…don’t never forget."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
George got a valuable education that day. Ol Sam could read faces quite well. I hoped George thanked the charitable soul who splashed water in his face.
Sam spoke the Truth
What a beautiful story, love those gloves
Just to read the face of a man and see his thoughts is all u need to know to respect this great fighter 🙏rip
It ain't the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog
Amen humble man of God
That’s what a NATURAL physique looks like
He knocked him out then preached to him lmao ❤
Look at the build, the size and the muscletone of these warriors back in the day.
I believe that with the right (LEGAL) supplements, food and today's world class training, men like them could hang with just about any of today's top fighters.
Fantastic Story
That line is cold as hell after knocking someone cold.
My father was a golden gloves champ back in the day. When I would try to work a jab on him, I hit his forearms and it felt like I broke my hand. He was a machinist so he did the equivalent of lifting weights 6 hours a day. Few people do that type of labor today.
What a specimen!
Sam Langford was a scientist with those hands 🤜🏿🤛🏿
Professor 😐
That's real! Have you ever had someone
clumsily or inadvertently express intense
aggression or negativity with their eyes
and facial expression? It's like an insulting
flash of truth💯
Jeez. What a beast. So huge for back then. Then again I heard that men had far more testosterone back then.
Wow 1920s they are jacked 💪👍
better nutrition, farm food, no toxins like they inject today to weaken us
That's because everything was manual labor back then...
@@pointsur67manual labor still exists, we just don't need it as much. Of course, we never should've gone industrial but I don't really care.
@Kitty255Again Trust me my friend, you're preaching to the choir. If there's anyone who's known about manual labor in this day and age, it's myself.
He let those intrusive thoughts get behind the wheel. "The wages of sin is death and damnation." That's a great quote!
These guys were way stronger and tougher back then….
Langford sparked his sparring partner out just for thinking about having a proper go with him 😂😂
Langford must have been an amazing boxer.
Wow! What a great unexpected and spiritual message!
Power statement of winning attitude and God will
Sam Langford is one of greatest boxers of all time regardless of weight right next to guys like
Ali , Louis, Pep, Robinson, Gans, Marciano, Moore, Armstrong, Greb, Benny Leonard, Jack Johnson, Dempsey Etc.
Your voice is so good 😊❤❤
Don't forget what the boston newspapers called this man.
Boston Tar Baby (kinda racist honestly)
Boston Terror
Boston Bonecrusher
@@ryneagheilim9782of course that shit was racist, that was a racist term used towards us then.
But if in a predominantly black society a white boxer was called a chalk baby, I doubt it would have been meant or taken with offence. Seems more like whiny crybabies of today looking to keep hold of offence questionably taken 100 years ago are the ones stoking division today. Oh, let me guess, I'm a racist chalk baby yes? In fact am I even allowed to admire these men?
“The wages of sin are death and damnnation” - dude was boxing an angel
It’s so very sad that Langford never had the chance to fight for the crown. He is my all time favorite fighter. From lightweight to heavyweight, he fought them all. Jack Johnson should have given him a rematch when he was champion.
He is 5 ft 6 1/2" as a HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP with 210 WIns and 43 Losses. How tf is this possible? O____O
fighters fought several times a month and more back in the day..